There's also a central set-piece mocking observational comedy, as Dave repeats and repeats an inane line about penguins, pushing through annoyance just about as far as hilarity.
The movie, to be shown tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the New School, could be described as a mock comedy of manners with a heart of ice.
Rich emphasized the extent to which the word had quickly become a cultural fixture, writing, "The mock Comedy Central pundit Stephen Colbert's slinging of the word 'truthiness' caught on instantaneously last year precisely because we live in the age of truthiness".
Liberal women's groups fanned outrage over "forced vaginal penetration," and Virginia was mocked on comedy shows.
Justice Scalia is being mocked on Comedy Central for overturning a law he doesn't like (the VRA) and upholding one he does (DOMA).
Reid's campaign went to work: instantly Lowden became a kind of nut, the "chickens for checkups" lady, roundly mocked on Comedy Central and MSNBC, and in videos that went viral on the Web.
Other Fringe shows have also made the leap to commercial runs, including at least two from last year: the musical pornography revue "Debbie Does Dallas" and "Matt and Ben," a celebrity-themed mock-comedy (another new genre), which opens a run tonight at Performance Space 122 in the East Village.
Singing about an unfaithful lover, he turned cuckoldry into comedy, mocking his rival as an imbecile and making rude gestures.
Mocking the dark comedy of government-run channels recycling the same die-hard Assad supporter in so many reports, activists put together several video compilations of his appearances in the state media.
He sings, he dances, he acts, and he's not afraid to get silly in self-mocking comedy shorts.
But as Count Dracula, new in disco-era New York and looking for a wife among the fashion models, Mr. Hamilton proved he had a flair for self-mocking comedy.
